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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
It’s honestly weird to see Chiefs fans of all people riding Josh Allen. Every year, without fail, his best receiver in Diggs no shows. And every year, he’s the only QB a who consistently dogs us. 3 TDs against us last postseason, 4 TDs in the 13 seconds game.
Hell, last year he would have thrown the go ahead TD with about 2 minutes left if not for a superhuman effort from Chris Jones. And wasn’t last year the game he threw that bomb that Diggs dropped? Would have been like an 80 yard TD and buddy dropped it.
I said Allen knows how to dial his shit back and the numbers prove that. His career INT % in the regular season is 2.5% vs 1.1% in the playoffs. That’s a significant difference.
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The whole narrative around the second down throw with Jones is hilarious to me. All he has to do is slightly move one direction and the throw isn’t impacted at all.
But regarding dialing it back, earlier in that possession he made three consecutive terrible plays with forcing the ball or doing too much, with two of those of would have likely or come close to ending the game but he got bailed out.
On first down he threw a hospital ball to Diggs who was fortunate to not catch it. On second down he threw a perfect pick 6 to Sneed but McDuffie had a “great” pass break up on that one. Then on third down he ran it immediately after dropping back to pass and fumbled the ball which at minimum should have been a Chiefs recovery and was close to a fumble return for a TD.
Also there is ZERO chance Mahomes tries the throw Allen did when Jones slightly nudged him. We know this because in the final OT drive Mahomes really wanted to go to the play they drew up for Kelce 15 yards downfield, where he even pumped it and changed his mind to not risk it unnecessarily, only to come back to the wide open check down to Pacheco. He took the easy open play even though it isn’t what he wanted. He kept his mental composure in a high pressure situation, which to this point is one of Allen’s biggest weaknesses.